Summary: I know how to fdisk an install XP on an IDE. I guess my old 12gb hdd was small enough that I didn't have to make several smaller drives (partitions??...
Summary: When installing a SATA or an IDE HD, what's the difference? I though it's the samething. But it turns out to be differet, I can't get the SATA HD to w...
Summary: Umm... here are some answers. You can take your primary HDD, snap on a PATA to SATA adapter, and connect it to your SATA controller. Make sure the SA...
Summary: I bought a new computer with sata HD. i've installed my old IDE HD. the bios recognized it, and so the WinXP. the problem is, that after i turned off ...
Summary: SATA is fiddley when installing an O/S. IDE is much easyer, you plug it in and it works. I suppose thats because its been around for quite some time n...
Summary: My main HD craped out on me and instead of replacing it with the one they send back, I'm going to upgrade it. What I want to know is; Is there a big ...
Summary: Has anyone had any luck using the sata to ide converters in windows 2000? I have a sata cd drive that I would like to install in my all ide system so ...
Summary: I have an old PC with no CD/DVD/BluRay drive at all. i transferred the old PC's HDD into my newer PC. The old PC runs off of IDE ONLY. My new one has ...
Summary: Running winxp pro and a a8n-sli mobo, can i raid together 2 80gb hdd, 1 sata 1 ide? is this possible? ive heard both answers and so am asking y'all f...
Summary: I've seen this Problem on the forum before, but haven't seen a satisfying answer to go with it :) I have a Biostar P4VTB Motherboard with serial raid....
Summary: Heya everyone. Hope there is someone out there who can give me some feedback and help me solve this problem. Here is what I am working with: mboard = ...
Summary: Right now, I have all my IDE slots filled up. (2 ports, 4 devices) I want to add another harddrive. But I wondered could I have SATA and IDE at the sa...
Summary: RAID 0 is where two disk are used to store data. The data is shared between the two disk thus speeding up operations as half the data is written to o...
Summary: Configure the SATA as IDE. I installed Windows 7 using an SATA HDD, and it installed without any probelms, and I did not have to hit F6 to load any SA...
Summary: Just as an FYI for those looking for a compatible option with this Asus Board in general re: RAID's and SATA vs. IDE --> Asus now makes a Parallel to ...
Summary: too much trouble to post your specs again? "DFI UltraInfinity Mobo Athlon 64 3000+ 1.5gb Ram Saphire x550 Video Card SB Live Sound Card Secondary PCI ...
Summary: Yesterday I Installed a New Maxtor SATA drive in my son's computer (a new MB from ASUS). I also installed a used 40 Gig ATA IDE that I formatted to re...
Summary: Hi all. I just got my first SATA drive and will be installing it soon. I've used IDE drives for years. When I would get a new/ replacement drive - a...
Summary: Thanks for providing some more info. So, if I understand your situation correctly: - the size of the SATA hard drive is under 128gb (in Windows), so e...
Summary: I recently bought and installed a PCI Controller RAID Card Adapter so I could use my new SATA hard drive as a master on my IDE computer. Installation ...